Profiles of Psychological Flexibility: A Latent Class Analysis of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Model

Tyndall, Ian; Waldeck, Daniel; Pancani, Luca; Whelan, Robert; Roche, Bryan; Pereira, Antonina

doi:10.1177/0145445518820036

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“…Using passive strategies to overcome stress prevents new learning experiences, for instance, that problems are not as great as imagined or out of control (Craske et al, 2014). This study's findings differ from those of Tyndall et al (2020), who found that single participants had the highest levels of psychological flexibility. Family support (not friends and close people) is considered more meaningful in providing certainty and security, a concrete need during a pandemic (Liu et al, 2020).…”

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The Relationship Between Stress and Well-being: The Mediating Roles of Students’ Psychological Flexibility and Loneliness During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Indra¹,

Radyani²,

Oriza³

2021

PROUST

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) has greatly impacted people‘s lives, including those of students in higher education, who have experienced drastic changes causing high levels of stress and decreased well-being. The relationship between stress and well-being can be viewed through the lens of psychological flexibility and loneliness. Individuals who experience high stress tend to be psychologically inflexible and have avoidant/maladaptive coping strategies. As a result, they are also vulnerable to loneliness, which ultimately results in decreased in well-being. In this study, of 945 student-participants, 43.28% met the criterion for high loneliness, 21.9% reported high perceived stress, 69.8% reflected high psychological inflexibility, and their mean score for well-being was 54.45. Serial mediation analysis found that psychological flexibility and loneliness partially mediate the relationship between stress and well-being. However, stress can affect well-being directly but also indirectly through psychological inflexibility and loneliness. A high level of stress, with a low level of psychological flexibility, results in a high level of loneliness; hence well-being decreases. Interventions promoting psychological flexibility can help individuals adapt and cope with difficult situations during the pandemic.

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The Relationship Between Stress and Well-being: The Mediating Roles of Students’ Psychological Flexibility and Loneliness During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Indra¹,

Radyani²,

Oriza³

2021

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“…According to this model, people who have higher levels of psychological well-being can establish an open and flexible contact with their own internal and external states (environmental) and engage themselves in committed actions related to personal values. Psychological flexibility has been strongly associated with several positive psychological outcomes, such as increased psychological well-being, reduced stress, anxiety, and depressive symptomatology (Bardeen et al, 2014;Francis et al, 2016;Tyndall et al, 2020). In opposition, decreased levels of psychological flexibility form the basis of psychological distress characterized by difficulties in emotional and behavioral regulation (Masuda and Tully, 2012).…”

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The Impact of Psychological Flexibility on Psychological Well-Being in Adults With Obesity

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Obesity is a global health problem that affects both physical and psychological health and well-being. Psychological flexibility is one of the key components related to psychological health. This cross-sectional study aims to investigate the impact of psychological flexibility on psychological well-being in a sample of 220 individuals with obesity. Multivariate analysis was performed to investigate the role of psychological flexibility in explaining psychological well-being, controlling for confounding factors (sex, age, and Body Mass Index). According to the results, psychological flexibility significantly explained psychological well-being. Our study provides additional evidence of the impact of psychological flexibility on psychological well-being. It also provides further support for the importance of integrating psychological flexibility in the psychological interventions for obesity.

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“…This, in turn, could trigger more avoidance, in a sort of vicious cycle. There is broad evidence that experiential avoidance and, more generally, the lack of flexibility regarding private events is associated with emotional distress and poor mental health and quality of life [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Indeed, the explicit goal of ACT is to enhance psychological flexibility [ 5 , 6 ] by teaching clients to be more open to experiencing private events as they arise (rather than attempting to control them) in leading a life driven by personally chosen values.…”

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Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS)

Reyes-Martín

López

Rodríguez-Valverde

2021

IJERPH

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Psychological inflexibility is a transdiagnostic dimension associated to psychological distress and poor mental health and quality of life. While multiple instruments have been developed for the assessment of patterns of inflexible responding to aversive private events (e.g., unwanted cognitions and emotions), the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS) is the first instrument specifically designed to assess inflexible responding to appetitive private events (e.g., desired affective states). In this study, we explored the factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of a Spanish adaptation of the EAS with a convenience sample of college students from Spain (n = 206; 79% female). A two-factor solution demonstrated very good fit to the data and was similar to the original two-subscale EAS structure: Anxious Clinging and Experience Prolonging. The scale showed adequate overall (α = 0.85) and subscale (αs: 0.90 and 0.89) internal consistency. Unlike the original instrument, both subscales were uncorrelated. Anxious Clinging correlated positively with experiential avoidance and with measures of negative affect and psychopathology, and negatively with positive affect, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. In turn, Experience Prolonging correlated negatively with psychopathology and positively with positive affect, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. Our results point to Anxious Clinging as the only EAS subscale contributing to psychological inflexibility.

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Profiles of Psychological Flexibility: A Latent Class Analysis of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Model

Cited by 67 publications

References 85 publications

The Relationship Between Stress and Well-being: The Mediating Roles of Students’ Psychological Flexibility and Loneliness During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Relationship Between Stress and Well-being: The Mediating Roles of Students’ Psychological Flexibility and Loneliness During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Impact of Psychological Flexibility on Psychological Well-Being in Adults With Obesity

Spanish Adaptation of the Experiential Approach Scale (EAS)

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